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Originally Posted by Magpie Quote: |
My take on it is, how many snakes incubate in water?
| And how many incubate on vermiculite?
Water is involved in 100% of wild snakes incubation, vermiculite in 0.0001%? |
Point taken, but they urinate on them as so they don't dehydrate, they do not sit them in free standing water. Vermiculite just simulates some sort of earth, and it's sterile. I doesn't matter if you use dirt, moss, bark and leaf litter as long has their is humidity an temperature.
Incubating on water with arid species I think is ridiculous. I can understand it with GTP's as humidity should be around 85% which is difficult to obtain. As I said there is plenty of incubators available now that can maintain it very accurately. Therefore substrate is a bit of a non issue. They will incubate quite fine in plastic trays with no substrate.
For the beginner vermiculite (grade 3) is ver easy, and maintains humidity well enough for most species.
